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Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by defrost on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @06:40PM (#46296288)
One was a home invasion that may or may not be related to the victims work on fusion plasma. It is very likely unrelated to that work.

The other was a mass shooting style event that targetted an exam preperation review hall populated by econ students and led by a 21-year-old teaching assistant.

It's a stretch to connect an isolated murder of a field advancing physics researcher and a hall full of students just because all the victims are involved in book learning.

Possible connection, sure. At an improbable stretch.

ChatGPT can certainly knock up a Clancy like novel here, no doubt.

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Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by varenc on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @09:07PM (#46297375)
Is there any evidence this murder was related to the professor's work?
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Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by red-iron-pine on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @03:07PM (#46304821)
put another way, is there any sort of proof that this guy wasn't banging his neighbour's wife, or embezzling funds, or otherwise doing something shady?
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Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by UncleMeat on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:46AM (#46301353)
In a different state, no less.
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Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by IAmBroom on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:10PM (#46304069)
My understanding is that the border security between those states is rather lax.
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Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by anamax on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @03:56PM (#46305389)
The US doesn't have border security between states. (The closest thing to an exception are the "don't bring agricultural products into California" stations. There's a lane for folks who stayed within 10 miles of the border and no one checks whether someone is using that lane inappropriately.)
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Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by IAmBroom on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:49PM (#46316829)
Thank you. I dropped this: /s
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Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by Morizero on Friday December 19, 2025 @02:06PM (#46329619)
The distance between Providence & Brookline is only slightly further than the distance between Dallas & Fort Worth. New England states are tiny.
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